Hello y'all,

on my small server machine (Celeron 2GHz, 512MB RAM) I've installed SuSE Linux 9.2 (KDE 3.3.0, ) and try to connect to it using tightvnc viewer from a Windows machine (options: /8bit /fullscreen /compresslevel 9 /quality 0).

Here are my problems:

Even on a 100mbit LAN and 8bit screen the connection is horribly slow. I tried with various client options, the results are always the same. It seems the server slows down a LOT during an active VNC connection.

Moreover - and most annoyingly - they keyboard input acts strange. Sometimes my keystrokes are "rearranged" - means if I type in "hello world", what I then see on the server really is "hlelo wrold". And sometimes, one keystroke is repeated dozens of times! Most annoying if it's the enter or delete key...

Has anyone a suggestion of what I could do to achieve a reliable vnc connection to my server?

Help would be greatly appreciated! I'm a Linux newbie...
Kind regards,
Christian.

Welcome to LQ.

I'm not sure what version of vnc SuSE ships with by default but you may want to try realvnc 4 which can also load as a display device.

Well, the version of vnc installed is 6.8.1-15.

But I think the problem might be another one, because KDE 3.3 seems to wrap it into an application named kdenetwork3-vnc which enables configuring remote connections through the KDE control center...

I was just wondering if other SuSE or KDE 3.3 experienced the same problem and meanwhile found a solution..?

I'm not sure what version of vnc that is then because the highest available vanila version is only 4. It may be worth ust trying RealVNC 4:
http://www.realvnc.com